Charlotte-Matthews
Dog Training & Enrichment
Help your dog be the best it can be with our dog training experts
A happy dog adds to a harmonious home. At Central Bark® Charlotte-Matthews, our team of dog training experts employs enjoyable and positive methods, using rewards to develop crucial life skills and behaviors for dogs of all ages.
Our offerings include personalized training, enrichment sessions, and group classes, reinforcing positive habits and strengthening the loving bond you share with your dog. Training sets the foundation for canine citizenship, fostering cheerful, sociable, and well-rounded dogs.
Experience Our Dog Training with These Key Features at Central Bark Charlotte-Matthews:
- Personalized Instruction: Our training sessions are customized to address your dog’s specific needs and goals. Our skilled trainers offer guidance to tackle behavioral challenges or introduce new commands, ensuring your dog receives the individualized attention they need to thrive.
- Group Classes for Skill Refinement: Engage in our group classes to reinforce positive behaviors and promote your dog’s socialization within a safe and supportive environment. These sessions provide valuable opportunities for your furry companion to interact with fellow dogs and humans while mastering essential skills.
- Cultivating Exemplary Citizenship: Training serves as the foundation for responsible behavior. We instill positive routines and essential commands in your dog, shaping them into well-rounded individuals who navigate social situations with confidence and grace.
- Deepening the Bond: Our training goes beyond mere command teaching. It builds trust, effective communication, and mutual understanding between you and your dog. This fosters an affectionate and respectful partnership, strengthening your unique connection with your four-legged companion.
Central Bark®
Charlotte-Matthews
9600 Monroe Rd,
Charlotte, NC 28270Get Directions
cltmatthews@centralbarkusa.com
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Dog Tricks Taught at Central Bark Charlotte-Matthews
Central Bark provides customized dog training programs tailored to the unique needs of each dog. These training services encompass a wide range of skills and behaviors, including:
- Name Recognition: Ensure safety by teaching your dog to respond to their name using positive techniques.
- Fundamental Commands: Master essential instructions such as sit, stay, down, wait, and leave-it through positive reinforcement, refining their behavior.
- Door and Gate Etiquette: Train your dog to enter and exit calmly upon command, displaying polite behavior.
- Relaxed Leash Walking: Enjoy pleasant walks by instructing your dog to walk calmly on a slack leash, eliminating pulling.
- Additional Behaviors: Address concerns like separation anxiety, excessive barking, or destructive chewing with the assistance of our dedicated trainers. Together, let’s enrich your dog’s life and unleash their full potential.
Dog Training & Enrichment Options:
Training Tutor
Personalized one-on-one training sessions during day care visits help your dog develop important skills and behaviors like name recall, sit, stay, down, wait, leave-it, door and gate control, and loose-leash walking. Excellent for your dog and easy for you! Your dog will come home tired and well-socialized, with the training and skills they need to be a well-behaved member of your family.
One-on-One Enrichment
Personalized One-on-One Enrichment sessions give your dog the extra attention they love and the freedom to use their senses and safely explore their instincts through interactive toys, puzzles, and games. It’s fun and rewarding and exercise their bodies and minds and engage their senses. Add complexity with fitness and agility equipment.
Rest Period Enrichment
Your dog gets to relax and recharge in their own private space with calming interactive toys and healthy food pairings tailored to their preferences and diet. It promotes physical and mental relaxation which can help them achieve a healthy balance of play, learning, and rest. It can also help them become more comfortable in crates by building positive associations.
Pricing
Training & Enrichment Add-ons
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Training Tutor One-on-one training session during your dog’s visit to practice important cues and behavior skills. Packages available. | 25 |
| One-on-One Enrichment Personalized session during your dog’s visit with interactive toys, puzzles, and games to exercise your dog’s body and mind. | 20 |
| Extra Rest Period Enrichment Private space with calming interactive food toy to help your dog achieve a healthy balance of activity and rest. | 7 |
Group Dog Training Classes
Ask an associate for details.
If you have any concerns about food sensitivities or destructive tendencies, please
speak to an associate at the front desk to discuss available options. All sales are final.
FAQs about Dog Training & Enrichment in Charlotte-Matthews
As part of joining the Central Bark® family, our expert staff conducts a thorough behavior assessment at your local Central Bark store. These assessments help ensure that your dog is placed with a playgroup they’re comfortable with so they can play safely every day they’re with us.
This four-day evaluation, while your dog participates in our Enrichment Day Care, assesses your dog’s:
- Comfort and social skills with people
- Social skills and playstyle with other dogs to help determine the playgroup and play schedule they can benefit from the most
- Comfort in both indoor and outdoor play spaces
- Comfort in rest areas and a crate
- Ability to share resources like water and toys in social settings
- Level of comfort taking treats in social settings
This process gives us a chance to get to know you and your dog while your dog gets acquainted with their new favorite place away from home. Through the entire four days, your dog’s comfort and safety is our top priority.
Once your pup passes all the behavior assessment elements, you are welcome to sign up for any of our daycare services or a sleepover!
To schedule a Behavior Assessment for your dog, please contact your local store.
NOTE: Please bring all required signed forms, vaccination proof, and a collar and leash for your behavior assessment.
While the Training Tutor, One-on-One Enrichment, and Rest Period Enrichment services are provided by our staff during your dog’s day care visit, Central Bark Fort Lauderdale also partners with Sue of We Love Dogs! to host group training classes. These classes are designed to help you and your dog refine skills together in a supportive environment. You can call the provided number to learn more about class schedules.
For dogs, being comfortable in a crate is a life skill that is incredibly useful for them and their owners. If you have ever traveled with your dog or had the unfortunate experience of an overnight stay at the vet, knowing your dog is comfortable in a crate is immeasurably comforting.
Crate training can take just days or a few months, based on your dog’s age, temperament, and past experiences with crates. The two keys to successful crate training are to keep the experience positive and go slowly.
When your puppy is not in their crate, keep the door open and reward them every time they choose to enter, even if you didn’t ask them to enter it. When crating your puppy, give them a safe enrichment item (like a stuffed Kong) that will keep them busy and allow them to self-soothe while confined. Remember that crate training should take place in a series of small, slow steps that will help your puppy become more comfortable.
Central Bark® offers everything you need to help you care for your new puppy. Our Enrichment Day Care gives puppies all the socialization, exercise, mental stimulation, and rest they need for a lifetime of happiness with you and your family. We also offer expert training and classes so you and your puppy can learn and bond together.
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With a variety of training solutions available, training costs depend upon what kind of training you and your dog need.
Central Bark® offers everything you need to help you train your new puppy or older dog. Including group classes and Training Tutor sessions that can take place during day care. Our expert training and classes help you, and your dog learn and bond together.